Attachment for garment-supporters.



B. F. OREWILER.

ATTACHMENT FOR GARNIENT SUPPORTERS. APPLICATION FILED mp9, 191'5A1,183,903. Patented May 23,1916.

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zUerTo-r Y ey'am, ZOfPfz/f/zler BENJAMIN F. OREWILER, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS.

, ATTACHMENT FOR GARtMENT-SUPPORTERS.

To aZZwwm t may concern.'

.Be it known that I. BENJAMIN F. ORE- wILER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook .and fState ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attach- Yments for Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention yrelateslto an attachment in the form of aconnecting piece adapted and intended to be used in conjunction withgarment supporters, as n for yinstance the ordinary garter.

Thev object of the invention is to configure a single piece of metalin amanner. whereby it will serve to; first, provide a connecting piecebetween the suspendingstrap and the garment clasp; second, to act asaretainer for the upper end of the non-extensible fabric'or tape ofthegarment clasp; third,to retain the free ends of the loop of the ygarmentclasp; and fourth, to reinforce and strengthen suoli looped portionagainst an undue separating or springingaction.

A further object of the invention is to make the attachment of a simpledesign whereby it is easily 'and' cheaply manufactured, and can bereadily and quickly applied to the parts of the Vgarter with which it isassociated. v .t

.The invention further consists in the features of construction andvcombinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 isa Afront view of a garter with the device orattachmentof the present invention in operative position; Fig. 2 is anedge view showing the attachment of the present invention together withthe lower part of the suspending strap `in section and the garter claspin elevation; Fig. I3 is a detail showing a section through theattachment of the present invention and showing the upper part of theloop member and tape Lof the garment clasp held in .position; F ig. 4 isa front view of the attachment ofthe present invention; and Fig. 5 is alsection on line 5 5 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction of the arrow andshowing the tape .of the garment clasp in clamped or secured-position. i

Speciiication of Letters Patent. i

Patented May 23, 1916.

Application filed April 9, 1915.. Seria1No. 20,194.

y In connection with the use of garment supporters a link or.,connecting member is employed for joining the garment clasp to theelasticv suspendingstrap, and in korder to cover the metal upon the backof the clasp La jstrip of fabric, usually non-elastic tape, isemployed,and, of course, vmeans must .be :provided for securing and holding this.tape in place. -The clasp employsfa looped zmember, whichA viscontracted atv yits lower lend and .enlarged medially thereof. The lowercontracted. end embraces the :stud

andserves .toholdthe fabric in wrapped conditionabout they stud.y Meansmust be provided for reinforcing or strengthening this looped member sothat it will not possess .too great ,anamount of spring property,

otherwise itfwould spring apart to such an eXtent Lin use, asto'teliminate yits value as a means l'for holdingthe fabric yin' wrappedcondition about thestud, and so far as I am aware, there/has never beenproduced an attachment formedy of a single piece of ymetal which willserve as a :means of connecting vthe garment clasp and suspending strap,

lof the =ordinary nature, to which is attached a buckle 7 for adjustingthe length thereof. Thebuckle, however, forms no part of the.presentinventiom and, of course, can be of any vsuitable style. Theclamping portion of the `gar-ment supporter consists of a stud baseS'f-rom which rises a stud 9, both the ybase andstud being of anysuitable construction. Agtape `or fabric 10gis attached to said studbase in any suitable manner, and this tape, as will be seen from thedrawings, eX- tends along `the back of the clamping portion orv clasp,andr serves -to prevent any vmetal .of the clasp from coming Ain contactrwith the wearer.

The .other `part o`f the clamping portion consists of a loopedmemnumeral 14. This member is provided at its j.

upper end with a slot and the upper part of the member consists of a bar16, which, when the member is attached to the suspendving strap 6, lieswithin the loop portion of said strap, as will be seen from Fig. 2, sothat by provision of this slot and bar the member 14 serves as a meansfor joining or connecting the suspending strap and the garment clasp.The lower end of the member 14 is in the form of a depending neck 17, ofa reduced width from the width of the remainder of the body, and thisneck is bent back upon itself to kform a U-shaped piece 18. The portion19 of the U-shaped piece which liesto the rear, terminates ina toothededgeangularly extending flange 20, the toothed edge of which alines witha slot 21.in the body of the member. The slot 21 ylies below the slot 15and for convenience may be termed the lower slot.y

v The tape 10 isY folded over the toothed edge of the flange 20, as willbe seen from Figs. 2 and` 3, andthen by a swedging action the flange isforced forward crowding the tape intothe slot 21, as will be apparentfrom Fig. 5, thus securing this end of the tape inposition. The teeth ofthe flange 20 are not intended to besharp, since it is not desired tohave a penetration or puncturing of the tape, but rather a forcing orycrowding of the tape through the slot. The bottom wall of the U-shapedmember 18 is cut away, as at 22. The free ends of the loop member 11 areinsertedl into the U-shaped member 18, and the extremities 23 of theends of the member 11 are bent slightly downward so that they projectthrough the opening 22, as will be seen from Fig. 1, and when the endsare thus configured the loop member is heldl by the U-shaped portionagainst undue outward springing movement, and thus the loop member 11isreinforced or strengthened against an undue springing action when inuse, and this bendingof the ends of the loop members so that theyproject through a slot is deemed to be a novel configuration of the endportions of the loop member.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the member 14 serves asa meansfor joining the elastic suspending strap to the' garment clasp; servesasa means for retaining one end of the garment clasp tape in position;servesto retain the free ends of the wire loop of the garment clasp inposition; and serves to reinforce and strengthen said wire loop againstan undue outward springing action. It will also be apparent that thedevice is veryv cheap and simple of construction, and that theapplication of it to the other parts of a garter or garment supporter isvery simple.

- I claim:

1. In combination with a suspending strap and garment clasp, a memberformed of a single piece of metal having a slot therein and bent toprovide a U-shaped portion adjacent its lower edge within which the endsof the garment clasp loop may lie, means for holding within the Ushapedportion the ends of the garment clasp loop against an outward spreadingmovement, a flanged upper end on the U-shaped portion alining with theslot and acting when pressed toward the slot to force one end of thegarment clasp tape therein to retain that end of the tape in position,and means above said slot for retaining the suspending strap,substantially as described.

2. A device of the character specified, consisting of a body formed of asingle piece of metal, and comprising Va relatively wide upper portionanda relatively reduced lower portion, means on the upper portion forreceiving and retaining a suspending strap, and said upper portion beingformed with a slot lat the lower part thereof, said lower portion of thebody being bent back upon itself to form a U-shaped section, a flange onthe upper end of said U-shaped section alined with said slot in saidupper portion, and the bottom wall of the U-shaped section having acentral notch therein, substantially as described. f

3. A device of the character specified consisting of a body'formed of asingle piece of metal and having a slot adjacent its upper edge,thelower portion of said body being bent back upon itself to form aU-shaped section, said body being provided with a second sloty below thefirst mentioned slot, a flanged upper end on the U-shaped section, andsaid flanged end and second slot alining with one another, substantiallyas described.

4. A device of the character speciied consisting of a body formed of asingle piece of metal and having a slot adjacent its upper edge, thelower portion of said body being bent back upon itself to form aU-shaped section, said body being provided with a second slot below thefirst mentioned slot, a flanged upper end on the U-shaped section,

. said flanged end and second slot alining with one another, and thebottom wall of the U- shaped section having a notch cut therein,substantially as described.

5. A device of the character specified conj sisting of a body formed ofa single piece of metal and provided with a, lower slot and an with saidlower slot, substantially as deupper slot, the lower portion of saidbody scribed. being bent back upon tself'to form a U- shaped section, anotch in the bottom wall of the U-shaped section, a flanged upper endWitnesses: on the U-shaped section provided Withka. ser- WM. P. BOND,rated edge, and said anged end alning EPHRAIM BANNING.

B. F. OREWILER.

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